Product Description

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Featuring new and classic essays surveying the scholarly, ethical, and biblical debate surrounding the Ten Commandments, Brown's volume is divided into three sections: the history of interpretation, contemporary reflections on the Decalogue as a whole, and contemporary reflections on individual commandments. Contributors include Patrick Miller, Reginald Fuller, Walter Brueggemann, Marvin Cheney, and others. 416 pages, softcover from Westminster/John Knox.

Publisher's Description

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Offering a host of classic and new essays surveying the scholarly ethical and biblical debate surrounding the Ten Commandments, William Brown organizes his volume into three parts: the history of interpretation, contemporary reflections on the Decalogue as a whole, and contemporary reflections on individual commandments. A useful addition to ethics as well as Old Testament and Hebrew Bible courses, Brown's The Ten Commandments will be a standard reference for all Decalogue research, as it facilitates a helpful balance between moral, theological, and biblical study.

The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

Author Bio

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William P. Brown is Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the author a number of books including Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament and Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor.